shelley bennett

Marshall Claire Mikaelson is the daughter of Keelin and Freya. Freya is her bio mother with Vincent but Keelin carried her to term. She is named after two of her aunts, Hayley and Davina. 

Her parents fell asleep when she was 12 years old. She had some memories of them. Seeing her mom at the hospital, dressing up her wounds and always being there to sooth her. While with her other mom, she remembers playing with magic, learning spells and running around in the park on late afternoons. She remembers being loved and her siblings always remained her that that was true.

She was a nurse back in the future, helping out the moment she was old enough. She did do some online causes to get better at it, as the problems go bigger and bigger as she got older. Vampire blood could only help solve problems so much.

She was engaged to Bennett Salvatore and had dated him for a number of years. 5 years ago, when her best friend Noelle Bennett died, they two brought up in the month after. Marshall struggled after Noelle’s death and Bennett broke up with her over the guilt as it was he who killed Noelle accidently as a wolf. However this is not common knowledge and something that Marshall never told anyone. 

Marshall after speaking with her brother, Nik decided that she would do whatever it took to get her friend back and set to bringing Noelle back from the dead. Bring her back just hours before the barrier around Mystic falls was lowered and they were thrown into the past. 

In the early 2000s and late 1990s, Elijah had split from his brother’s side when Klaus told him that he had in fact daggered all their siblings and dropped them in the ocean to suffer for all time. This caused a rift between them as Elijah looked for a way to finally kill his brother once and for all, thinking that he had completely lost his humanity. In this time, he was travelling around the world. In 1982 he was heading through Portland, Oregon when he came across a child. A toddler that had been abandoned near an old fire station. 

He picked up the child, planning to take her to the police station when she touched his cheek, searching his old and forgotten memories till she found a moment when he had wished for a child of his own, playing it for him. Reminding him. And so he decided to keep the child. Naming her Melody.

Elijah soon found her that there was more to the child than just his new child. But she was in fact a siphon. It would be found out later that Melody had been left after her mother, a member of the gemini coven after it was revealed she was a siphon, the mother knowing that the siphon would likely be killed when it was discovered what she was. 

Melody however was happy with her new life. The child of a vampire, she didn’t feel like she was all that different. Her father giving her the love and support she never would have had in the gemini coven. It was a perfect life. Melody sticking by her father’s side and enjoying all the things he had to saw her about the world. Before finding her talent in cooking and after working at her skills, she got into a chef school in french to keep studying. 

But Melody’s past caught up with her years later when her biological father found her that her biological mother had given her away instead of killing her. Elijah had been away from the house meeting with someone who had reported a sighting of a new doppelganger when Melody was home alone after a long day at college studying to be a chef, when she was killed in their home. Elijah’s grief lead him straight to Mystic Falls to try and kill his brother and met Elena Gilbert.